Grewelthorpe
a North Yorkshire Village
1939 Register for Grewelthorpe.
In December 1938 it was announced in the House of Commons that in the event of war, a National Register would be taken that listed the personal details of every civilian in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This Register was to be a critical tool in coordinating the war effort at home.Read more ...
A Brief History
What’s in a Name In the Domesday Book it is noted that the Saxon landowner Gospatric had 840 acres at TORP. Many of the older residents still refer to the village as Thorpe.Read more ...
A Racehorse called Grewelthorpe
Mr C.H. Jolliffe had a racehorse called Grewelthorpe by Hackthorpe & Antidote. It came 5th in the village nursery handicap at Leicester at the Autumn meeting 1888.Read more ...
ARP wardens and other volunteers.
ARP wardens and other volunteers in Yorkshire villages. As shown on the 1939 register.Read more ...
Beggars Bush Farm
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Boxing Match
The match was to be between Jem Belcher, the English Champion and Joe Berks and lead to the Riot Act being read in Grewelthorpe.Read more ...
Bramley Grange
From the Domesday Book: \r\nIn Brameleia 2 curacates (about 120 acres) of land to the geld (tax). There is land for one plough.Read more ...
Brewers & Innkeepers of Masham and surrounding area
Research on ‘brewing’ in Masham and came across Henry Lofthus (Lofthouse) who I had identified as a brewer. Henry was listed many times in connection with various inns where he provided surety to a number of innkeepersRead more ...
Bush Farm sale March 1831
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Calverley Diary
Extracts from Frederick Clarkson Calverley’s diary written in the late Victorian period. These extracts have been provided by Carolyn Waters and have been selected as they contain references to Hackfall and Mickley.Read more ...
Celebrations
Grewelthorpe residents have never been slow to organise a party when the nation has been celebrating some great event like a royal wedding or coronation, or marking the end of a conflict.Read more ...
Census Statistics
Grewelthorpe Census records provide us with many statistics.Read more ...
Chartulary - Bramley
The Chartulary of Fountains Abbey is a 19th Century record of land grants and transfers. It contains detailed information about Bramley Grange.Read more ...
Churchmen in Grewelthorpe
Names of the vicars of Grewelthorpe St James Church from 1847 to 1954.Read more ...
Churchmen of Grewelthorpe
A list of the Vicars and Methodist ministers.Read more ...
Cricket Club
We have information about the Cricket Club in Grewelthorpe from the diaries of Bert Jackson who was a keen player. Bert was the groom, handyman and chauffeur for General and Mrs Dalton who lived at The Hutts, Grewelthorpe in the early 20th century.Read more ...
Directories
There have been a number of directories over the years which list trades people living and working in Grewelthorpe.Read more ...
Domesday Book
The Domesday Book was commissioned in 1085 by William the Conqueror and the first draft was completed in August 1086. Grewelthorpe is listed as “Torp†in a section of the book which lists all of Gospatric’s holdings.Read more ...
Edgar Chapman
Edgar Chapman has been recognised for a simple act repeated each year until his death in 1952. He simply helped to keep the Leeds Pals memorial in good order.Read more ...
Electoral Registers Grewelthorpe
Data from the 1835, 1848 Poll books, 1906 and Electoral RegistersRead more ...
Evacuees. World War 2.
For a small village like Grewelthorpe a lot of children were evacuated to the village in World War 2.Read more ...
Fingerfield farm Grewelthorpe
In 1822 Directory. Gentleman of Fingerfield was George Horner. George Horner senior was buried on 30 May 1821 aged 89. In his will, made 1817, he left to his son George his messuages, lands and tenements in Grewelthorpe, with 3 closes called Horner Close and 10 acres at Mickley.Read more ...
French War Escape Hero lived in Grewelthorpe.
A French artist called Roger Murrell who escaped from France at the beginning of the war lived in the Hackfall Inn Grewelthorpe in 1952.Read more ...
George Leathley
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Grewelthorpe 1911
In 1911 there were 111 inhabited houses and 6 uninhabited houses . There were 8 buildings which were not dwellings. e.g. The Church, Chapel, School, reading room. 2 Butcher’s shops and Fruit shop & outbuildings.Read more ...
Grewelthorpe Ghost stories
Ghost stories from Grewelthorpe.Read more ...
Grewelthorpe Inclosure Award
The Inclosure Acts were a series of Acts of Parliament that empowered enclosure of open fields and common land in England and Wales, creating legal property rights to land that was previously held in common.Read more ...
Grewelthorpe Man
Grewelthorpe Man – A well preserved Roman bog body was found in 1850 on Grewelthorpe Moor.Read more ...
Grewelthorpe Mill
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Grewelthorpe Pond
This postcard of the village pond is believed to be from the early 1900s. If you have accurate information on the date please let us know using the form below.Read more ...
Grewelthorpe Reading Room
Grewelthorpe had a reading room and games room situated in an old cottage near Crosshills.Read more ...
Grewelthorpe residents in 1838
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Grewelthorpe Women at work
The census returns show work available for women in Grewelthorpe.Read more ...
Hidden bottle in Church
Improvements to the church reveal a hidden bottle in 1880.Read more ...
Houses in 1911
Some of the houses in Grewelthorpe as shown on the 1911 census.Read more ...
Houses in Grewelthorpe in 1921.
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Infant Mortality
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Knights Templar
There is good evidence that part of Grewelthorpe was owned by the Knights Templar from the late 1200s up to 1312Read more ...
Land Owners
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Leonard Lonsdale
A group with connections to Grewelthorpe visited the grave of Leonard Lonsdale in September 2011. Leonard was born and brought up in one of the cottages in Wapping, Grewelthorpe. He went to the village school and was a typical local lad.Read more ...
Les Taylor - Oral History
Les Taylor describes his reminiscences of Grewelthorpe from the 1930sRead more ...
Major William Thomas Buxey
Bill had a distinguished military career in which sudden and violent death had been a frequent possibility. He was born in Gosport, Hampshire, his unemployed father a former soldier with the First Wiltshire Regiment.Read more ...
Masham Peculiar Court
5th September 1664. Between the hours of 9 and 11 in the morning in the Parish Church, Massam before Mark Hodgson, Clerk, Official or Commissary of the Peculiar jurisdiction of Massam in the presence of Francis Parker – notary public.Read more ...
Methodists
Records show that Grewelthorpe had a small Methodist Society of 11 members in 1795 which came into being as a result of the visits by John Wesley to this locality.Read more ...
Mickley
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Mickley Mill.
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Mickley Water Supply and drainage
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Nutwith in Grewelthorpe
People who live in Grewelthorpe are familiar with the name NutwithRead more ...
Old School &, Village Photos
Memories of Grewelthorpe school.Read more ...
Robbery in Grewelthorpe 1849
A daring robbery was committed at the house of Mrs Blackburn, grocer of Grewelthorpe on Tuesday evening or early Wednesday morning.Read more ...
Roll of Honour WW1
Inside St. James’s Church, Grewelthorpe there is a framed document called “The Scrap of Paper” It is a Roll of Honour of men who have answered their country’s call in defence of a Scrap of Paper.Read more ...
Roll of Honour WW2
Men & Women of Grewelthorpe School & Parish who served in Her Majesty’s forces in WWIIRead more ...
Royal Oak Public House
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School Canteen
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School History Part 1.
Grewelthorpe National school started in 1876.Read more ...
School History Part 4.
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School History. Part 2.
Details of Teachers and Employees of Grewelthorpe School from 1876.Read more ...
School History. Part 3.
Corporal Punishment in schoolRead more ...
School Play 1938
A picture of the school play 1938. The Cobbler and the Elves with names taken from the back of the photograph.Read more ...
Street Lights
Street Lights –, The Parish Council agreed to pay for the installation the sum of £52-10s-0d in 20 half yearly instalments of £2-12s-6d on 31st December and 31st March each year. Also the sum of £2 per lamp in two equal instalments for each lighting period per year.Read more ...
The Canadian Emigrant
The Yorkshire Gazette printed the following account in January 1852, received from an unknown emigrant to Canada.Read more ...
The Royal British Legion
This is an attempt to produce some form of history for the Grewelthorpe branch of the Royal British Legion. .Read more ...
Time Line
We are lucky to have a wealth of early historical information on Grewelthorpe and Bramley Grange due in part to the involvement of Fountains Abbey. Here is a time line of major events in the village’s history.Read more ...
Two boys killed by bomb.
On 12th July 1943 two Grewelthorpe boys, John Ashby & Alan Calvert, were killed by a bomb or other ordinance that they had found near the Village.Read more ...
Village Survey 1970 - 1971
In 1971 Grewelthorpe school produced a survey into the life of the village.Read more ...
W.T.Neave.
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War Memorial
Two people from Grewelthorpe were killed in action during the two World Wars. Their details, war grave information and links to information about their service is detailed in this article…Read more ...
War Time in Grewelthorpe
World War 2 Village life. Researching in the local newspapers before and during the second World War we can see how the war affected village life.Read more ...
Water for Grewelthorpe
Up to the late 1890s Grewelthorpe people had to rely on natural springs for their drinking water.Read more ...
Wayside Cross
On a grassy rise in the village of Grewelthorpe stands a wooden wayside cross which has been there for 102 years. The cross was erected in 1917, during the First World War, by the vicar of Grewelthorpe.Read more ...
West Riding House of Correction
People from Grewelthorpe who found themselves in the West Riding House of Correction or Wakefield Prison 1801 -1914.Read more ...
William George Leathley
Two local residents have visited The Thiepval Memorial to pay their respects to William George Leathley who was a casualty of the first day of the battle of the Somme.Read more ...
Wills. 1600 - 1860
In the name of God, Amen, I Christopher Jaques of Fingafield House in the township of Grewelthorpe & County of Yorkshire, yeoman, being very old and weeke of body, but of perfict mind and memory,Read more ...
Workhouse Inmates
Workhouse inmates born in Grewelthorpe and nearby villages. Recorded on various census returns.Read more ...
WW2 Bombers crash in area
Halifax Bomber Crash At Galphay. When Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) airman arrived in England they were sent to training units, which in this case was 1664 Heavy Conversion Unit at Dishforth, where they are formed into crews and trained on the Handley Page Halifax.Read more ...